How to kill/terminate running e4defrag without damaging my data?
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If I kill a running
e4defrag
, is there a risk of data loss/corruption? Is there a safe way to interrupt it?
For example: running e4defrag
on large partition (such as the root directory) or large file (such as a squashfs system image file) is very slow, so sometimes, stopping/killing e4defrag
before it is done is needed, but I'm not sure whether killing it (by sending either of SIGINT
,SIGTERM
,SIGKILL
, etc. to it) e4defrag
is safe?
I'm running Debian Stretch and the filesystem is ext4.
My kernel version:4.14.13
My e2fsprogs version:1.43.4-2
Asked by illiterate
(1023 rep)
Sep 28, 2018, 04:50 PM
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